EXILE

Related Subjects: Absence, Punishment, Separation

1. I know how men in exile feed on dreams.—AESCHYLUS, Agamemnon
   

2. They bore within their breasts the grief
   That fame can never heal—
   The deep, unutterable woe
   Which none save exiles feel.—W. E. AYTOUN, The Island of the Scots
   

3. Exile is terrible to those wha have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe as one city.—CICERO, Paradoxa
   

4. Whosoever flieth from his country for the sake of God's true religion, shall find in the earth many forced to do the same, and plenty of provisions.—The Koran
   

5. The world was all before them, where to choose
   Their place of rest, and Providence their guide:
   They, hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow,
   Through Eden took their solitary way.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

6. No, my good lord: banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins; but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company: banish plump Jack and banish all the world.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

7. The sly slow hours shall not determinate
   The dateless limit of thy dear exile;
   The hopeless word of "never to return"
   Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
   

8. Eating the bitter bread of banishment.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II

9. For exile hath more terror in his look,
   Much more than death.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
   

10. They are free men, but I am banished.
    And say'st thou yet that exile is not death?—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

11. Banished?
    O friar, the damned use that word in hell;
    Howlings attend it: how hast thou the heart,
    Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
    A sin-absolver, and my friend pro­fess'd,
    To mangle me with that word "banished"?—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

12. Since they would not listen to you at home in your own lands, happy he that goes into exile. For banishment is often the only means of saving the nobler possessions of the world. And if the spirit of man has set forth on the flight into Egypt, because the executioner is at hand, it is better to be the ass on which the foster-father rides, or the Virgin who bore him, than Herod in his purple and his crown.—ARNOLD ZWEIG, The Crowning of a King